Help

[cinder lagoon]

Can you help make this look a little better this is my first time drawing anime

[hearty estuary]

hi

what would u mean by look better?

i think it looks really really cool

i dont see much issues

[cinder lagoon]

No my friend tried to copy mine but he wants to know how to make it look more appealing I didn’t know how to help him so I came here

What I told him so far is that his lines look more like sketches rather than straight lines, also using a smudge tool would help with the shading

Bolding the lines that matter like the face and the hair with some of the clothing would help emphasize that part

I use a different shading technique in mine that he tried to replicate but it didn’t work out for I him I personally used hashing but because I think it’s easier but since there’s a lot of lines in his I told him to try cross hashing next time

Also use different types of pencil using just HB would only leave a little it of room for any type of shading if you cover the whole spectrum there is 8b - 4h

With them at your disposal you can easily make this 3x better

[hearty estuary]

yeah thats good advice

i think ur friend intstead of wanting to make it look apealling i think he just wants it to look like yours

maybe some spots could be darker

yes pencils matter

aisde from that

his proportions r okay

and the lines i think could do with a little less of a rough look like

a bit more confidence

[steady ermine]

also this

[cinder lagoon]

Thank you for elaborating that for him he’s getting better though and I thank you a lot for that